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  • #1
    Denis Leary
    “I eat meat because meat tastes like murder, and murder tastes pretty dam good!”
    Denis Leary

  • #2
    James Clavell
    “Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.”
    James Clavell, Shōgun

  • #3
    James Clavell
    “There is no dignity for either the sufferer or the torturer”
    James Clavell, Shogun

  • #4
    J.D. Salinger
    “She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
    J.D. Salinger

  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #6
    Jack London
    “A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
    Jack London

  • #7
    Bertrand Russell
    “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #8
    Robert Frost
    “Freedom lies in being bold.”
    Robert Frost

  • #9
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #10
    Lewis Carroll
    “One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #11
    John Rogers
    “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

    [Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
    John Rogers

  • #12
    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    Mark Twain

  • #13
    Mark Twain
    “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #14
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #15
    Roald Dahl
    “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
    Go throw your TV set away,
    And in its place you can install
    A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
    Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
    Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

  • #16
    Abraham Lincoln
    “If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #17
    Herman Melville
    “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
    Herman Melville

  • #18
    Herman Melville
    “Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
    Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

  • #19
    Franz Kafka
    “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #20
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
    Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

  • #21
    Thomas Paine
    “To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
    Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

  • #22
    Albert Schweitzer
    “If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was”
    Albert Schweitzer
    tags: love

  • #23
    Tom Waits
    “You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.”
    Tom Waits

  • #24
    Robert Jordan
    “Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.”
    Robert Jordan

  • #25
    L. Sprague de Camp
    “There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just learned that his brain child is a deformed idiot.”
    L. Sprague de Camp

  • #26
    Calvin Trillin
    “Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.”
    Calvin Trillin

  • #27
    Francis Bacon
    “If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
    Francis Bacon, The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning

  • #28
    Michael Crichton
    “If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
    Michael Crichton

  • #29
    Aldous Huxley
    “Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
    Aldous Huxley

  • #30
    Dorothy Parker
    “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
    Dorothy Parker



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